Successful young mystery novelist Molly Hunt, raised by adoptive parents on Long Island, is stunned when a chance encounter leads to a startling revelation. She journeys south to solve the puzzle of her beginnings.

A young divorcee, Caroline Kirby, returns to Maui, where she had lived so contentedly as a child with her parents and her grandmother Joanna. She returns to face a secret hidden all these years and to find David, a childhood friend.

Lauren Castle searches for the truth behind her husband's accidental death and her famous grandmother's suicide which seem to be inextricably linked.

From the Edgar Award winning queen of the American gothics : A troubled girl in a remote mountain home grapples with a terrifying secret (The New York Times). New York clinical psychologist Lynn McLeod has never backed away from a child in need. But a plea for her services in Blue Ridge country tries Lynn s compassion. Ten-year-old Jilly is no random traumatized girl. She s the daughter of Lynn s unfaithful ex-husband, Stephen. Despite the turbulent...

A psychic investigates a mysterious disappearance high in the Appalachian Mountains in this novel from a Grand Master of her craft (Barbara Michaels). It s a legacy Christy Loren never wanted. The unwitting inheritor of her mother s psychic gifts, the Long Island librarian assists in police investigations, but they ve become too hard for her to bear. Too many victims. Too many shallow graves. So she s fled to the peaceful foothills of the Blue Ridge...

From a New York Times bestselling author: In a lakeside mansion, a beautiful young bride becomes the snowbound prisoner of a dark family secret. When Manhattan art curator Diana Blake married gallery owner Glen Chandler, she was certain she knew him well enough to devote the rest of her life to him. He was the son of a renowned artist; he sculpted things of beauty in alabaster; and he loved her. It was only when Glen took her home to his family s...

The Turquoise Mask: Manhattan illustrator Amanda Austin is summoned to her grandfather's Santa Fe hacienda to get to know distant relatives of her late mother, who died years ago under mysterious circumstances. But once there, everyone greets her like an unwelcome guest. After a little investigating, she begins to fear the real reason she was invited… The Trembling Hills: In 1906, Sara Bishop is off to San Francisco to win back her childhood sweetheart,...

From the "Queen of the American gothics": In turn-of-the-century New York, a strange inheritance lures a vulnerable governess into a trap (The New York Times). Camilla King knows little of her family history, having never met her estranged relatives. Her late father wanted it that way. But when she receives a startling invitation from her immeasurably wealthy and ailing grandfather, Orrin Judd, to return to Thunder Heights, the crumbling mansion on...

From a New York Times -bestselling author: In nineteenth-century Manhattan, a young woman is hired to care for a child haunted by murder. Having just lost her brother and mother in a tragic accident, dressmaker Megan Kincaid has never felt so vulnerable and alone. Then comes the startling request from the wealthy Brandon Reid of Washington Square to work as a private caretaker to his violently tempered nine-year-old stepson, Jeremy. Megan reluctantly...

From the New York Times bestselling master of suspense : A woman s mysterious past is unearthed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (Mary Higgins Clark). Sara Bishop was raised in Chicago, but her heart belongs in San Francisco, where her childhood sweetheart, Ritchie Temple, has moved to pursue a career in architecture. Convinced he feels the same way for her, she hopes his fianc e, the manipulative Judith Renwick, is just a passing fancy....